Pumpkin Sage Gnocci with Glazed Oven Cooked Vegetables – Ian Bern

Recipes by Request : a play on what happens during a DJ’s set… combining my love of cooking with the featured guest DJ.

13.11.2020

Background Story:

I am not a big fan of cooking and prefer to spend my time with music. However, when I cook it is important to me that I cook vegetarian and sustainable. Food is a big factor in worldwide CO2 emissions, so it is important to me to reduce this for a clean environment and happy animals.

Recipe:

Ingredients:

  • Your favorite beer or wine
  • 300g carrots
  • 2 big beets
  • Garlic
  • Oil
  • Rice syrup
  • Balsamico
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • 700g Pumpkin
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Nutmeg
  • Corn Starch
  • Spelt Flour and Durum Wheat Semolina
  • Plant Oil
  • Sage Leaves
  • Butter
  • Garlic
  • Parmesan
  • Baking tray / casserole dish / pots and pans

Instructions (2 parts):

  1. German Tip: Open a beer and drink it while cooking.
  2. Preheat the oven to 180 C [350F] (circulating air 160 c without preheating).
  3. Grease a baking tray or a large casserole dish.
  4. Cut the carrot tops off the carrots and wash them off thoroughly.
  5. Cut the carrots into small slices.
  6. Divide and quarter the beet tubers.
  7. Mix the olive oil, balsamic vinegar and rice syrup well.
  8. German Tip: Open your second beer.
  9. Spread the resulting dressing mix over the vegetables and bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes until the vegetables are cooked (they can be checked with a knife)
  1. German tip: Open your third beer and drink it while cooking this portion.
  2. Preheat the often to 180 C [350F].
  3. Cut the pumpkin into small rectangles, sprinkle with salt and spread on a baking tray.
  4. Cook the pumpkin the oven for about 15-20 minutes.
  5. Let the pumpkin pieces cool down and puree them finely in a blender or food processor.
  6. Season to taste with pepper, nutmeg, salt
  7. Mix the pureed pumpkin, starch, flour and semolina until the consistency of the dough is soft and sticky.
  8. Prepare the work surface well – it should be well floured. Gently roll out the dough into cylinders and cut into pieces. Afterwards form the Gnocchi’s into nice pieces.
  9. German Tip: Open your 4th beer.
  10. Prepare a pot of boiling salt water.
  11. Cook the gnocchi in the boiling salt water until they float on the surface of the water.
  12. Scoop them out when they float and then let them rest on a tray.
  13. Fry the sage leaves in a small pan with oil.
  14. Fry the gnocchi pieces in a large coated pan with lots of butter and minced garlic.
  15. German Tip: Open your 5th beer.
  16. Place all the gnocchi and some glazed veggies on your plate.
  17. Sprinkle the gnocchi with parmesan and sage oil.
  18. Enjoy!